Infinity room

El artista turco Refik Anadol realizó esta halucinante video-instalación para sitio específico donde utiliza proyecciones digitales para convertir un espacio convencional en un ambiente immersivo (por definición, que sensorialmente nos transporta más allá del mundo físico), totalmente diferente, etéreo, orgánico y luminoso.

A mí me remitió a un entorno intra-uterino (el primero que conocemos en la vida, y por ello, reconfortante y plácido), traducido al lenguaje de lo digital, binario (blanco y negro) y estructurado en wireframes (line based). Pero no les meteré demasiadas ideas, chéquenlo ustedes…

Infinity’ is an immersive environment project by Refik Anadol. Project is an integral part of artist’s ongoing ‘Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments’ which is a research on audio/visual installations by using the state called immersion which is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of presence in a non-physical world…

https://vimeo.com/141749628

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Quantum Space

No son muchas las instalaciones que nos provocan querer estar bailando dentro de ellas. Esta lo hace. Había visto a varios artistas digitales intentar cosas con “video interactivo”. Pero esta video-instalación que proyecta cosas respondiendo a nuestros movimientos (motion capture) hecha por el artista ruso Igor Tatarnikov (Sodazot) es realmente espectacular.

Les recomiendo que vean todo lo que hace su colectivo (http://kuflex.com/), tiene varios proyectos bastante buenos, todos explorando las posibilidades de fusionar arte con tecnología digitales…

Entering ths room you are disintegrating into quantums of light and communicating with universe.

This is a digital meditation. Walls in this room are full covered by interactive projections. Abstract visualizations generated realtime from all movements of participants and from some automated parameters.

Tech details: 3 computers, 6 projectors, 6 depth cameras Asus Xtion….

http://bit.ly/1NgXY4I

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Nest. 5

El artista conceptual checo Jakub Geltner hace estas fabulosas series de instalaciones (llamadas Nest) en ambientes de naturaleza y urbanos, “plagándolos” de dispositivos tecnológicos (antenas, cámaras) como si fuera una nueva especie animal aglomeránose o anidando en un entorno nuevo (y alterándolo por completo y de manera disruptiva… ¿les suena familiar?)
Muchas otras cosas más pasan por mi cabeza al ver esto. Temas con la privacidad, la culturas mediáticas, la información y nuestro obsesivo temor y/o deseo por controlarla, la creación de una nueva naturaleza.

Pero no voy a influir, porque además de eso el resultado es visualmente muy poético. Así que mejor cuéntenme qué es lo que ven ustedes…

Czech artist Jakub Geltner installs sculptures of surveillance cameras into public spaces. As an “intervention into the very character of a city”, he’s been working on the ‘Nest’ project since 2011. Living and working in Prague, he created his first installation directly in the center of the city, perfectly assimilating into the surrounding architecture and design of the contemporary urban landscape. From then on, his sculptures turned up in places like a former elementary school, a palace and even on the facade of a church. His latest public space installation, Nest No. 5, features a sculpture of surveillance cameras by the sea.

A graduate of fine arts, he says about his project: “The growth process of a nest on the facades of buildings or in different urban spaces can be implemented as a congestion point or as a starting point of an infection”…

http://www.geltner.cz/

Cars that feel

Una de las activaciones más ambiciosas que he visto en mi vida (al menos tecnológicamente hablando), creada por la marca Toyota y la agencia australiana Soap Creative, para hacer que la gente conozca el nuevo Prius e interactuar con autos que en verdad sienten y responden a estímulos (besos, abrazos, caricias)…

VIVID Sydney is a unique annual event of light & ideas that happens all around Sydney’s CBD. It’s Sydney’s largest tourism event attracting over 1,400,000 visitors. Soap Creative was chosen as one of the 50 artists to create a light installation. Our piece the ‘Cars That Feel’ was created in collaboration with Toyota to showcase the entire Prius range…

http://bit.ly/1xTX4JE

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Mexican Cemetery

El panteón Dolores cobra “vida” (por medio de proyecciones muy coloridas) y forma parte de un increíble proyecto artístico, creado por el colectivo mexicano “Ciudad intervenida”, y que tiene como objetivo re-significar espacios públicos de la ciudad mediante la creación de intervenciones animadas in situ…

Using projectors to beam specially designed animations onto the headstones, the result of Llama Rada’s project is like what would happen if Oingo Boingo visited a Toontown graveyard on the Day of the Dead. When the witching hour comes to Panteón Dolores, the tombstones of the cemetery come to life as an array of colorful goblins come out to party the night away.

Directed by Alejandro Garcia Cabbalero and sponsored by Ciudad Intervenida, the Panteón de Dolores project was one of six commissioned pieces that brought the work of animators into various public spaces throughout the city. Llama Rada certainly succeeds at that, reimagining what is usually seen as a landscape of death as a bright and colorful celebration of contemporary Mexican life.

[h/t Laughing Squid]

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Computers watching movies

Aquí una serie de experimentos curiosos hechos por Benjamin Grosser, donde se ve el resultado de dejar "ver" películas a algunos de los programas más avanzados de AI (Artificial intellligence) que existen.
No se que tan “inteligente” sea en realidad la inteligencia artificial de hoy en día, pero la verdad yo no pondría a ver a una computadora a ver The Matrix, ni 2001, Space Odissey.
¿Que cosa (buena) podría aprender una computadora de esas películas? No lo sé, tampoco digo que esto sea suficiente para provocar toda una “singularidad tecnológica”. Pero el que busca encuentra…

When we watch movies, we pay attention to specific parts of the scene and focus on different actors and look at certain things on the screen. Most of what we see is influenced by what the directors want us to see, our attentions are easy to grab after all. So what if you showed the same movie to computers? What would they see? How would the movies look to them?

Benjamin Grosser created a computational system to reveal what computers see in movies. He wrote software using vision algorithms and artificial intelligence routines to give “the system some degree of agency, allowing it to decide what it watches and what it does not”. The vision of the computer is reflected in temporal sketches, the sketching is synced with the movie’s audio…

Computers Watching Movies was first exhibited as a large-scale video installation during the University of Illinois 2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition,

http://bit.ly/1fizSZ5

Computers watching movies

Rain Room

Una muestra en el MOMA de Nueva York (llamada EXPO 1) tiene esta instalación interactiva del colectivo Random International llamada Rain Room, en donde la gente puede “controlar” la lluvia con sus movimientos. Nice…

Random International’s immersive environment Rain Room (2012), a major component of the MoMA PS1 exhibition EXPO 1: New York,is presented in the lot directly adjacent to The Museum of Modern Art. A field of falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected, Rain Room offers visitors the experience of controlling the rain. Known for their distinctive approach to contemporary digital practice, Random International’s experimental projects come alive through audience interaction—and Rain Room is their largest and most ambitious to date.

The work invites visitors to explore the roles that science, technology, and human ingenuity can play in stabilizing our environment. Using digital technology,Rain Room creates a carefully choreographed downpour, simultaneously encouraging people to become performers on an unexpected stage and creating an intimate atmosphere of contemplation…

http://bit.ly/18Zpn7m

Rain Room

The Density of Light

El artista Mexicano Gabriel Dawe hace estas instalaciones para sitios específicos donde usando simples hilos de colores entretejidos crea arcoiris que juegan con la luz y la arquitectura…

Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations that explore the connection between fashion and architecture, and how they relate to the human need for shelter in all its shapes and forms. His work is centered in the exploration of textiles, aiming to examine the complicated construction of gender and identity in his native Mexico and attempting to subvert the notions of masculinity and machismo prevalent in the present day…

http://www.gabrieldawe.com/

Consideration

2005, Series of mixed media works
Exhibited at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, as part of the Performa05 Biennial…

Consideration, Carey Young’s solo show at Paula Cooper Gallery, featured a series of legally-enforceable contracts between artist and viewer.

Created in conjunction with a legal team, the text, video and performative works entice the viewer into agreements that explore notions of individual autonomy, freedom of speech and the social contract. Engaging participants in a series of contractual relationships, Young dissects the viewer’s experience of the exhibition, from accepting the exhibition invitation, to entering and moving around the exhibition space…

http://bit.ly/1c2lZe5

visual-poetry:

»declared void« by carey young

Floating room

Pedazos de edificio flotando, como en un película de ciencia ficción -sobre invisibilidad-. Me costaba trabajo creer el trabajo de este artista argentino llamado Leandro Erlich. Pero efectivamente en esta instalación llamada  “Monte-meubles – L’ultime déménagement”, creada para Le Voyage à Nantes (un festival de arte urbano), fragmentos de edificios fueron suspendidos en las calles de la ciudad francesa, con todo y muebles. Chéquen el proyecto completo en su web, está hermoso…

Like a scene from a fantasy movie, a dilapidated room that appears to have been literally ripped out of a building remains suspended in mid air above Nantes, France. Its walls were torn apart, revealing bricks below the plaster, and wood floors reveal the joists inside. The floating room is accessible via a ladder. The gravity defying surreal installation is the work of Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich. The large-scale piece, called “Monte-meubles – L’ultime déménagement” (literally – The Furniture Lift – The Ultimate Moving Out), was created for the biannual Le Voyage a Nantes, an art festival which turns the entire French city into an art gallery…

http://www.leandroerlich.com.ar/